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"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"
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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."

"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."

"Nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds."

"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."
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"If you want people to enter your world, you don't need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!"

"Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!"

"Since it is always possible that your dream can come true, you must be very careful in choosing your dream, because the world is full with the unhappy people whose dreams are realized!"

"One of the most beautiful words is touch, it exquisitely represents our need to prove ourselves that we are not in a dream!"

"Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!"

"Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!"
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